Liberty of the Imagination
earliest edition we have, 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012
In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination - philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime - on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth century. Far from being too busy with politics and commerce or too anxious about the morality of pleasure, American...
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